Sealing means



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"l "lll lllllUDliE lEiRUUKS, Ulli' UlUTHl URANGIE, NEW JERSEY.

statine means.

.application tiled .april it, i221. aerial lite. M2661..

' To all when@ it may concern.'

.he it known that l, lllriarnnn lll. Bacone, a citizen et the llnited States, and a resident et @auth tlrange, in the county et Ilssex and State et New Jersey, have invented certain new and usetnl lrnprovelll ments in Sealing ltlieans, et which the tellowing is a specification.

This invention relates generally to sealing means tor cords er the like, and has ter its main object and teature a sheet material seal simple in construction, eilective in sealing llt .lill

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and capable et revealing any tampering with the contents et the package to which it may be attached.

ln the accompanying drawings the inven.

tien is disclosed in several concrete and prelerred terms in whichl1 i l is a general view et a package showing the method et' attaching the seal et the invention.

lFig. 2 is an enlarged detail view showing the seal bent up and the cord sealed..

liig., d is a sectional view en the plane et line dm3 et llig. 2.

ltig. d is a perspective detail view shew# in% the seal bent up and broken.

ig. 5 is a .plan view et a blank et sheet material trom which the seal is made, showin one term et the invention..l

t is a sectional view en the plane el line b--b elv lti 5..

hig. 'l is a p an view et a blank et sheet material showing a modihed terni et the invention..

l indicates a main portion having an aperture 2 adjacent te the opposite sides et which are two upstanding lugs 3 both stimoli up in thesame direction trom the- '.tace et the main portion. 'lhe twe cords 4i.

are ythreaded through the aperture. .hs shown in Fig. ,7 this may constitute a cemplete sealing member; and, in that event, a weakened eene t prelerably extends transversely et the seal in the plane et the aperture and intermediate the lugs. llt will be understood that alter the cords are passed through the aperture, the seal is beutback upon itselt in such direction as te cause the lugs te approach each other thereby clasping the cords between the races et the members et sheet material and causing the lugs te enter the cords and also te torce them sidewise inte thev aperture for, it will be observed, the lugs 3 terminate short et the ends et the aperture.

llt it ia new attempted te unbend the meinwill be exposed, as indicated ber etn sheet material, the weakened zone will fracture the material and thus indicate that the seal has been broken.

ln the morel elaborate term et the invention shownin li ig. l5, the weakened zone 5 may be retained or may be omitted. lin this torni. ot the invention, the main portion is provided with an auxiliary portion e and preierably a weakened Zone l is termed between the main and auxiliary portions.

lhat tace et the main portion which is opposite te the one having the projecting lugs is provided with a symbol indicating that the seal has been broken. 'lhis symbol may be et any suitable character such as the word broken or it may be a det er any other appropriate indicia. llt will new be understood that, with the term et the invention shown in it ig. 5, the bending el the main portion along line 5 will expose the symbol indicating a breken seal but that, by bending back the auxiliary portion upon the doubledup main portion, this symbol is hidden, as indicated in liig. 2. llt it is new attempted te unbend the lauxiliary portion, the metal will :tracture along line 7 and the symbol in Fig. l. lt desired, the auxiliary portion may carry the name et the shipper in the exposed part et that portion.. "le insure that sudicient bending to i'racture the material will occur 'betere the seal can he opened, it is prelerred te provide the main portion with a notch 8 at one end and te separate the auxiliary per tien trein the main portion by means et a relatively narrow neck 9 so that when the seal is bent up, as indicated in Fig. 2, said neck will enter the notch.

lt will `be seen that, by the means described, a package, as lil, may be tied with cord and a knot ll termed in the cord. 'lllhe loose strands, extending trom the knot, may then be sealed in the manner described and, it desired, the seal mayy be slipped through a. shipping tag l2 by slitting the tag slightl to admit et the passage therethreug et the seal. With' the term shown in llig. 5 and' with both weakened zones 5 and l used, it will be observed that the auxiliary portion lterms an outer seal, as it were, in t at the the device will indicate that the outer seal has been broken and yet retain the package in sealed condition by reason ofthe inner seal.

I claim:

l. Sealing means comprising: a member of sheet material having a main portion, provided with an aperture, for the reception of strands, and an auxiliary portion at one end, said main portion beingbent back upon itself` along a line extending transversely through the aperture, and said auxiliary portion being bent back upon the doubledup main portion.

2. Sealmg means comprising: a member of sheet material having a main portion provided with an aperture, for the reception of strands and an auxiliary portion at one end separated from the main portion by a weakened zone, said main portion being bent back upon itself along a line extending transversely through the aperture and parallel to the weakened ,zone aforesaid, and said auxiliary portion being bent back upon the doubled-up main portion.

3.. Sealing means comprising: a member of sheet material having a main portion,

provided with an aperture for the reception of strands, said main portion having further a notch at one end and an auxiliary portion separated yby a relatively narrow neck from the main portion at its other end, said main portion being bent back upon itself along a line extendin transversely through the aperture, and sai auxiliary portion being bent back upon the doubled-up main portion in such direction that the narrow neck enters the notch of the main portion.

4. Sealing means comprising: a member of sheet material having a main portion, provided with an aperture for the reception of strands andprovided, on one of its faces, with a symbol indicatin that the seal has been broken, and an aux' iary portion at one end, said main portion being bent back upon itself along a line extending transversely through the aperture and in such direction as to bring that face carrying the symbol outermost, and said auxiliary portion being bent back upon the doubled-up main rtion in' such direc-tion as to cover the ace carrying the symbol.

5. Sealing means for cords or the like comprising: a member of sheet material having an aperture, for the reception of strands, and upturned lugs at opposite sides of said aperture but on the same face of the sheet material member, said member also having an auxiliary portion at one end, said main portion being bent back upon itself along a line extending transversely through the aperture at a point intermediate the lugs, the bend being in such direction as' to cause the lugs to approach each other, and said auxiliary portion being bent back upon the doubled-up main portion.

6. Sealing means for cords'or the like comprising: a member of sheet material having an aperture for the reception of strands, and upturned lugs at opposite sides of said aperture but on the same face of the sheet material member, said member also having a symbol, indicating that the seal has been broken, upon that face which is opposite to the one carrying the lugs, and an auxiliary portion at one end of the main portion, said main portion being bent back upon itself along a line extendlng transversely throu h the aperture at a point intermediate tie lugs, the bend being in such direction as to cause the lugs to approach each other and to bring the face carrying the symbol outer- -most, and said auxiliary portion being bent back upon the doub1ed-up main portlon in such direction as to cover the face carrying the symbol.

Signed at New York city, in the borough of anhattan, county and State of New York, this 12th da of ABrGil 1921.

WINFRE MU BRooKs. 

